Happy Birthday To ME!

Have a great day everybody! After all, this is one of the best days ALL YEAR LONG!! (If I do say so myself.) ;)

Creativity of a Pumpkin Carving Genius

photo courtesy of: Oh Happy Day

Halloween Adventures and Birthday Countdown!

Halloween at college is fun. College students, as it is well known, have a wide range of incomes - or lack of income. Luckily, that means people get really creative! This girl was in my Biology class and had one of the more impressive costumes of the day. When she came into class someone had to help her shimmy the box off so she could sit down. (She is an iPod in case you can't tell.)

The other exciting event of the day had to do with these guys: pirates! There was a big group of guys all dressed up like pirates (about 15 of them) and I saw them as I was walking to my 2pm class. I thought, aww, that's fun, and continued walking. However, all of the sudden they all started running toward the middle of the quad with this dude carrying the pirate flag in the lead and they started pulling out plastic swords and yelling pirate curses. Those of us who were near looked at them in confusion and looked toward the building where they were running....and saw a huge group of NINJAS running down the stairs toward the pirates! What?! They proceeded to have a battle in the middle of the lawn (complete with cardboard ninja stars) while we all watched and cheered and whipped out cameras trying to capture the moment. ;) Totally awesome. I managed to get some footage of it on my digital camera, but it was the latter half of the battle and not nearly as cool as when they were running towards each other and first started to fight.

This is our boy acapella group, and while they were singing some songs to encourage us all to go to their concert, one of the Ninjas flipped onto the grass behind them and just posed with his duct tape nunchucks. Wow.

Happy November! November means my birthday is on Tuesday! Woo hoo, happy birthday to me! I'm going to be turning 24.....wow. Mr. Hadlock appears to have some secrets up his sleeve, so I'm looking forward to teasing him and seeing what happens for my birthday. :) Happy Saturday, everyone!

Adventures in Patternmaking

I am taking patternmaking this semester as my last sewing class in my college career. I was terrified of this class...seriously. I had just taken Advanced Clothing Construction (i.e. Things That Are Harder To Sew) during Spring term....aka 14 weeks worth of classes in half the time, but not half the work. It was a little bit (read: completely) miserable. Thus I was wary of taking another advanced studies sewing class so soon - especially one I didn't know much about. But I have basically LOVED it so far. It is still a lot of work as all sewing classes at BYU are, but I don't live in the sewing lab and I am loving that.


We just had our midterm last week and boy, am I glad it is over! The midterm consisted of this: Teacher gives you a picture of a dress or skirt/bodice and you make all the pattern pieces for said picture. You may or may not have seen/learned specifically the techniques used in the picture. You have six hours over two days. Good luck!

Yeah, you tell me that you wouldn't be scared if the following was your midterm review:

But I survived and it went pretty well. I messed one thing up big time - which made me really sad because I did it RIGHT and then I thought too much, apparently, and I re-did it WRONG and turned it in. Sigh.... We got our tests back today and I showed my teacher after class my CORRECT pattern that I had not turned in and she gave me this anguished look...which made me feel better even though I couldn't raise my grade.

We have just passed the midway week and I feel like the semester is practically over! That is a great feeling. Cuz' you know what comes at the end of Fall semester? Good Things.

A thought for the Sabbath

You know, sometimes I think we all need to remember that we are constantly being watched - and not only by our peers.

My little brother is the greatest. Anyone who has ever met him knows that he is incredibly nice, humble, sweet and talented. I love that kid. I always wonder what it must be like for him to have grown up with an entirely different family than I did. My brothers and sisters all went to school with me and we were kids together. His brothers and sisters are old and almost all are married and the oldest have several children. What must that be like?

As I have watched him grow up I have come to realize that he just may be the best kid in the bunch. I hope I have boys just like him. This picture is from a family Disneyland trip last year at the end of the long, fun day. My nephew says he wants to be just like his uncle. He couldn't have picked a better role model.

Blogless

I want to post, I want to post! Unfortunately...I won't have time, literally, until later next week. But after that, watch out! I'm going to be a regular poster and have a blast with my blog. Until later...

This is my adorable nephew savoring the harvest of the citrus trees in my parents backyard a year or so ago. I love that the grapefruit is as big as his head!

Happy Birthday Mr. Hadlock!

Sheesh...it took me FOREVER to post this. Apparently the internet in the library only works when you are using it to study. ;)



My man turned 24 today! We can't believe we are at the beginning of the mid-twenties. (My B-day is 3 weeks from today!) Mid twenties...that sounds old. I tried my hardest today in our busy schedule to make Tylan feel special and loved and I hope it worked.

Tyger, you are the most wonderful of friends and a terrific and loving husband. I appreciate all you do for me and how hard you try to improve yourself and become the person you desire to be. I love how excited you get when you are trying to figure out what present I got you. I think you might enjoy trying to get information out of me more than the present! I appreciate your kind words and big hugs. I love cuddling with you before I fall asleep and how you pounce on me in the morning. I love you and I can't wait to kiss you after we finish our homework for the night.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Hadlock. Happy Birthday.

Happy Halloween!

Yesterday I finally had some time to start the decorating of my house for Halloween. I don't have much Halloween decor (yet) but I tried to make do with construction paper, tape and thread. I now have a delightfully "spooky" living room and it makes me happy.

Note:
scary bats hanging from the ceiling

creepy spiderwebs spanning the pictures

delicious candycorn adorning the switch plate

Someday I will get to decorate to my hearts content and have an awesome house just like my beautiful mum.

My mom loves Halloween. Nephew Joshua thinks their new friend is pretty cool as well.

I Want to Go Here

I want to go to Disneyland! It is the perfect time of the year to go - it's off peak season, the park isn't crowded and the weather is beautiful. Right now it is Halloweentime at the Happiest Place on Earth and I have always wanted to see the 16-foot-tall Mickey Pumpkin on Main Street, USA. The whole park gets a makeover from September 21st - October 31st before the Christmas holiday season. As a lover of Fall and a lover of Disneyland I would be in my own little heaven to be there right now.

Wouldn't you love to be Disneyland Pumpkin Carving Master and create beautiful masterpieces like this? My pumpkin efforts have never looked that good.

Anybody want to come with me?

The Flu = Stress

I had a nasty case of the flu most of last week and I am paying for those 2 days I felt justified to miss classes. (aka...I couldn't even sit up in bed). However, as one of my teachers said in a reply to my explanation email for my absence, "good luck, getting sick during school is a killer!" How true that is. Hence, I will not be concentrating on blogging and getting pictures up this week for I will be spending countless hours trying to catch up. I think I am more sad about that than anyone else. :)